Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
~Sir Philip Sydney

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.
~Allen Ginsberg

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
~Leo Tolstoy

EndQuote:
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
~Marcel Proust

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Posted from the Grove

Five Important Historical Events That Changed History
https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/5-important-historical-events-that-changed-language/?param

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Prewritten for Thurs 10/18 (6:00pm PT/9 ET):  toast, promiscuous

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  trickle, diagram

~BarTalk:

Alex In Hinterland

‘Twas Fright Night Friday @The Odeon
With Ghost playing host at the podium
And Miss Witch of the West spewing odium
Tears of fear trickle down quaky legs ad nauseam
Diagramming prophetic puddles on the floor
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Before Borders

Trickles aborning
Congregating torrents
Coastlines, snaking river lines
Sparkling witless and wordless lines
But their inkings on a map
Diagram civilization

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5-7-5 x 5 x 6

diagram for love
parse a sentence for meaning
it evaporates
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tricklings of a brook
tickle the rocks where they touch
their laugh like a song
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power vacuums up
while misery trickles down
that’s ok with some
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a trickle of clues
instants of coincidence
diagram a plot
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the world needs babies
like markets need consumers
die a Gramma
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car do the shimmy
dance, beboppin’ down the street
trick El Camino
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tickle ivories
croon low to the ovaries
to win the fair sex

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